Another one in this theme of insights about the SCAN sensemaking / decision-making framework that arose whilst working on clean-up for more general use of the tools in the inventory. This time it’s a set of nice simplifications that become…
Category: Enterprise architecture
Notes on enterprise-architecture development and application – for the whole enterprise, not just the IT domains
Insights on SCAN: Managers and masters
Continuing on with this theme of insights on the SCAN sensemaking / decision-making framework that arose during our work on cleaning up our inventory of tools for change. This time it’s a follow-on to the previous post about ‘reducing the…
Insights on SCAN: The bubble-metaphor
In the work we’re doing to make the ‘bucket-list’ of sensemaking-tools more accessible to general users, occasional insights arise that make the tools themselves richer and more powerful. There’ve been a bunch of those recently from our work on SCAN,…
‘Tetradian on architectures’ videos
Yay! Today is the launch for my new ‘Tetradian on architectures‘ video-channel on YouTube! (Yes, I promised to get started on this about a year ago, but it’s taken me this long to work out how to do it…) Each video…
Tagged with: Business, business architecture, complexity, Enterprise architecture, methodology, video, videocast, YouTube
Guiding the dance of change
How do we work with change? How do we deal with change? Or cope with it? Perhaps a better metaphor would be to dance with change. That’s not a new metaphor, of course: for business-change, for example, there’s the now-classic book…
Tagged with: Business, change, decision-making, Enterprise architecture, methodology, process, sense-making
Down the rabbit-hole with ‘evidence-based’
If we want to make something ‘evidence-based’, then what exactly is ‘evidence’? On the surface the answer might seem obvious – I mean, evidence is evidence, right? But in practice, as soon as we look a little closer, the evidence…
Tagged with: evidence, evidence-based, Knowledge, methodology, paradigm, responsibility, sense-making
Concept-development, and our role for Patreon
“I think we’re onto something here.” That was my colleague and designer Joseph Chittenden, talking about a rethink that came up from the previous post here on ‘Hope, optimism and delusion‘, in relation to our current Patreon project to make…
Tagged with: Business, complexity, Enterprise architecture, Futures, joseph chittenden, methodology, patreon, technology adoption
Hope, optimism and delusion
Tom G
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Power and responsibility
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Yes, I work in and around the fringes of enterprise-architecture and the like – but my long-term background is more in medicine. So for me, one of the quiet pleasures of the new-year ‘holiday season’ is reading through the Christmas…
Tagged with: bmj, decision-making, delusion, Enterprise architecture, hope, optimism, paradigm, responsibility, self-delusion, sense-making
Oliver Baier on architecture-practice
I’m hugely grateful to Oliver Baier for the following Twitter-thread, which he posted on Christmas Day: A few things clicked for me in the last few days: Once again I’ve been struggling with my professional practice. Do I even have one?…
Tools for change: Back to the basics
Keep it simple. That’s always the challenge. The themes we’re working on with that ‘bucket-list’ of tools for change, it’s all too easy to go running off down the rabbit-hole, making things more complicated and complex than they need to…
Tagged with: Business, business architecture, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, metatools, methodology, patreon, tools
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